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The source of this text about two twins, a skep­tic and an op­ti­mist, is Ji­rina Prekop, a Czech psychologist.

Two fe­tu­ses talk to each other in the womb. One is a be­lie­ver and the other is not.

Athe­ist baby: And you? Do you be­lieve in life af­ter birth?
Be­lie­ving baby: Sure. It is ob­vious that there is life af­ter birth. And we are here pre­ci­sely so we can get strong and re­ady for what awaits us af­ter that.
AB: It makes no sense. There is not­hing af­ter birth. Can you ima­gine what life af­ter birth might look like?
BB: Well, I don’t know all the details. But over there, there will be ple­nty of light, ple­nty of joy. And, for example, we are go­ing to eat with our mouths over there.
AB: What nonsense! We have our um­bi­li­cal cord that feeds us. And yet, no one has re­tur­ned from that other life. By birth, life is sim­ply en­ded.
BB: No! I don’t ex­actly know what life af­ter birth is like, but we will de­fi­ni­tely see our mo­ther and she will take care of us.
AB: Mother? Do you be­lieve in mother?? And where is she?
BB: But she’s ever­y­where! She sur­rounds us! Thanks to her we live,and wi­t­hout her we are nothing. She ta­kes care of us at every mo­ment.
AB: This is absurd! Have you ever seen her? Me neither! So she ob­viously does not exist. And if she does exist, why doesn’t she ma­ni­fest her­self?
BB: Well, I do not agree. Because, sometimes,when ever­y­thing is quiet, then you can hear how she sings … feel how she cares­ses our world … I am sure that our real life begins af­ter birth.
AB: Well, I’m con­vin­ced that there is not­hing af­ter birth. That is all irrational.

Li­nux and Unix ac­tually aren’t the same thing. Mac OS is Unix af­ter Steve Jobs took a big dump on it, then once you buy an $800 PC for at least $1200, he ta­kes a dump on you.

I un­der­stand that you are bit­ter about the fi­nan­cial ra­ping in­stil­led on you, so feel free to call me a ga­mer with no life de­s­pite kno­wing not­hing about me. I’m sure you need the win there.

And the re­a­son for the re­lia­bi­lity of Macs is not a good thing. No­body bo­thers to give Macs vi­ru­ses for the same re­a­sons no­body bo­thers to go to war with Ca­nada. They suck any­way, they aren’t si­gni­fi­cant, and even if you did both people who care would be tools.

Any vi­rus ta­kes re­sour­ces to de­ve­lop, so why would you not go for the tar­get with a big­ger re­ward. Sup­pose Fort Knox and the coo­kie jar had equal se­cu­rity. Which would you steal from? There is no ama­zing se­cu­rity be­hind Macs, PCs are just big­ger tar­gets be­cause they matter.

Other pro­blems with PCs are ge­ne­rally due to the user being an idiot, and due to the large mar­ket share we also have a large idiot share. PCs leave vir­tually every set­ting open to the user to mo­dify. Of­ten ti­mes, the user doesn’t know his shit and screws things up. Macs give you no power and thus its hard to mess things up. Think about how much da­mage you could cause lo­cked in a play­pen vs. lo­cked in The Pentagon.

My XP com­pu­ter of five years got ex­actly 0 vi­ru­ses wi­t­hout even in­stal­ling an an­ti­vi­rus be­cause I wasn’t an idiot who cli­cked every po­pup and down­loa­ded 2kB mo­vies off of Li­me­Wire. The big­gest pro­blems PCs have are the users, the un­in­for­med of which seem to be swit­ching to Macs. Have fun, all the en­gi­neers and sci­en­tists which make any real pro­gress in the world will still be here using PCs.

The ger­man ver­sion of this ar­ti­cle is not­hing but a trans­la­tion of this ori­gi­nal source.

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This is a great stop mo­tion vi­deo, and I like not only the nice mu­sic and the sweet girl, but also the way the mo­vie was made. The sin­ger is cal­led Kina Gran­nis, her song is cal­led “in your arms”. I haven’t heard of her be­fore, but I think she must be ob­ser­ved in the near future.

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